Florida Bamboo Forum

can someone list a few types of cold tolerant bamboo plants?

below is a partial list of cold hardy bamboo varieties
Genus species, (minimum temperature Fahreheit)
Bambusa balcooa (23)
Bambusa blumeana (20)
Bambusa eutuldoides (16)
Bambusa malingensis (20)
Bambusa multiplex (11)
Bambusa multiplex 'albo-striata' (05)
Bambusa multiplex 'alphonse karr' (11)
Bambusa multiplex 'fernleaf' (11)
Bambusa multiplex 'golden goddess' (11)
Bambusa multiplex 'silverstripe' (11)
Bambusa multiplex 'stripestem fernleaf' (11)
Bambusa multiplex 'willowy' (11)
Bambusa multiplex var. riviereorum (11)
Bambusa nana (16)
Bambusa oldhamii (16)
Bambusa textilis (05)
Bambusa textilis 'glabra' (11)
Bambusa textilis 'gracilis' (11)
Bambusa tuldoides (16)
Bambusa ventricosa (16)
Chusquea genus all species (21-25)
Dendrocalamopsis beecheyana (16)
Dendrocalamus strictus (16)
Drepanostachyum falcatum (16)
Fargesia murieliae (11)
Fargesia nitida (-4)
Fargesia spathacea (-4)
Otatea acuminata aztecorum (16)

I can tell you right nor that D. Strictus is cold tolerant, however, it will die to the ground every year in temps under 28 degrees. I've been growing this one from seed and all of them have done this every year, but continue to come back. Usually they look like a bamboo shrub until the big shoots emerge in June/July.